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Books about Russia and the former USSR

Rank Title Author Added

1

33,484 members

510 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, elkiedee

2

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

14,498 members

231 reviews

4

4 Members: Chatterbox, thorold, roby72, raperper

3

by Vasily Grossman

4,131 members

100 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, elkiedee, raperper

4

by Boris Pasternak

13,003 members

172 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner

5

Ten Days that Shook the World

2,865 members

43 reviews

3.9

3 Members: lilithcat, roby72, elkiedee

6

by Nikolai Gogol

10,524 members

136 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner

7

The White Guard

by Mikhail Bulgakov

1,657 members

26 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, deebee1

8

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

34,401 members

394 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

9

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9,427 members

84 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

10

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

701 members

4.1

2 Members: thorold, raperper

11

Sketches from a Hunter's Album

by Ivan Turgenev

2,032 members

32 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

12

Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History

by Rachel Polonsky

314 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Chatterbox, elkiedee

13

A Hero of Our Time

by Michail Jurjevič Lermontov

4,220 members

70 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

14

The Petty Demon

by Fyodor Sologub

582 members

5 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

15

Anna Karenina [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.]

249 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

16

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

by Svetlana Alexievich

2,904 members

98 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: _Zoe_

17

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

by David Remnick

1,449 members

18 reviews

4.2

Member: Bretzky1

18

It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past

by David Satter

87 members

3 reviews

½ 4.7

Member: inge87

19

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

by Orlando Figes

1,986 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

20

Memoirs of a Revolutionary

by Victor Serge

530 members

9 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: elkiedee

21

An Armenian Sketchbook

by Vasily Grossman

293 members

8 reviews

4

Member: inge87

22

Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union

by Conor O'Clery

146 members

5 reviews

4

Member: Chatterbox

23

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

14,826 members

188 reviews

4.1

Member: roby72

24

The Endless Steppe

by Esther Hautzig

2,439 members

35 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee

25

The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin

by Adam Hochschild

291 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Chatterbox

26

by Mikhail Gorbachev

170 members

2.9

Member: Bretzky1

27

The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation

by Oliver Bullough

122 members

2 reviews

4

Member: inge87

28

Es gab keinen Sex im Sozialismus: Legenden und Missverständnisse des vorigen Jahrhunderts

by Wladimir Kaminer

47 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold

29

Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine

458 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: inge87

30

One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964

by Aleksandr Fursenko

283 members

4 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

31

by Victor Serge

271 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee

32

My adventures in bolshevik Russia

3 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thorold

33

by Vasily Grossman

469 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: elkiedee

34

Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

215 members

10 reviews

4.1

Member: inge87

35

Lost and Found in Russia: Lives in the Post-Soviet Landscape

by Susan Richards

180 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Chatterbox

36

by Andrew Cockburn

64 members

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

37

The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921

by Isaac Deutscher

446 members

10 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: elkiedee

38

Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia

by Jonathan Brent

133 members

4 reviews

4

Member: Chatterbox

39

The Spirit-Wrestlers

by Philip Marsden

107 members

1 review

3.9

Member: inge87

40

Peter the Great Transforms Russia (Problems in European Civilization)

by James Cracraft

97 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: Bretzky1

41

by Helen Dunmore

1,064 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

42

To the Hermitage

by Malcolm Bradbury

319 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold

43

Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus

by Oliver Bullough

151 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: inge87

44

The Litvinenko File

by Martin Sixsmith

64 members

1 review

4.2

Member: Chatterbox

45

Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground

by Jonathan Steele

61 members

3.1

Member: Bretzky1

46

Putin’s Russia

by Anna Politkovskaya

763 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: Chatterbox

47

The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union

by Serhii Plokhy

339 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: inge87

48

Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals

by Dervla Murphy

58 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee

49

Белая гвардия. Мастер и Маргарита

by Mihail Bulgakov

19 members

5

Member: thorold

50

by Ryszard Kapuściński

1,201 members

23 reviews

4.2

Member: Chatterbox

51

Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia

by Charlotte Hobson

114 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee

52

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Parts I-II

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

6,016 members

48 reviews

4.2

Member: roby72

53

by Hedrick Smith

961 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: Chatterbox

54

White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia

by Jacek Hugo-Bader

112 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: elkiedee

55

The New Russians

by Hedrick Smith

506 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Chatterbox

56

by Helen Dunmore

416 members

42 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

57

Sale of the Century: Russia's Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism

by Chrystia Freeland

100 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: Chatterbox

58

The Vanishing Futurist

by Charlotte Hobson

45 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

59

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

10,016 members

148 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

60

Travels in Siberia

839 members

37 reviews

4

Member: Chatterbox

61

by Sarah Quigley

164 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

62

by Antony Beevor

4,788 members

65 reviews

4.2

Member: roby72

63

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia

by Peter Pomerantsev

910 members

37 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee

64

Nothing But the Truth: Selected Dispatches

by Anna Politkovskaya

67 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: elkiedee

65

Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories

by Anton Tschechow

1,098 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: roby72

66

3,548 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

67

901 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

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